It’s summer and the kids get to visit the flower farm a lot again. They got to say hello to their three rabbits, Cottontail, Quincy and Sarah. Ainara wanted to make sure I knew that the Brown one was Sarah and that she was female. We said hello to the cows too. We call them [...]
Posts Tagged ‘flower farm’
21 Oct
Organic Flowers: Why Should you Care
Conventional agriculture uses chemical inputs and machinery. Chemical fertilizers and pesticides are energy-intensive. That is the rough equivalent of the emissions of 88 million passenger cars each year. That is more than the total number of cars in India, China, Australia, Canada and Mexico. =If everyone converted 10% of their diet to organic, we could [...]
25 Aug
Something Fishy Lurking in our Soil
Our farm uses a lot of fish emulsion as natural fertilizer. Fish emulsion has high organic nitrogen. It’s a great soil conditioner and provides bacterial food to feed the soil’s microherd. You read it right, the soil eats. We always see the soil as living. (Sometimes I feel sad thinking about how advanced we are [...]
4 Aug
Truly GREENhouses!
We have taken a step farther and have consciously built our greenhouses to be as green as they could be. All our greenhouses are constructed in bamboo. Yes, bamboo! Not those tall, rigid, imposing steel structures, not even concrete, not even hard wood. We do not cut trees! WHY BAMBOO? Prevents global warming: Our greenhouses [...]
1 Jul
Holding on to your Rose Romance
Our farm prides itself with perfect blossoms, roses with strong stems, buds that open slowly, as if in a slow dance, elegant petals like velvet, and sweet smells that waft, giving you the scent of all things beautiful! We harvest an average of 6000 stems of flowers a day, including elegant roses. We have colors [...]
9 Jun
Sustainable Agriculture
We care. You care- enough that you wish your flowers do little or nothing to harm the environment or your health, enough that the workers who plant, grow and harvest your flowers are happy. That is why you purchase eco-friendly bouquets that are sustainably grown. We celebrate nature, everything that is beautiful, vibrant and healthy. [...]
